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Small garment shops in Pakistan usually run on paper registers and memory. I built a complete inventory and point-of-sale system for a wholesale and retail garment shop that replaces that with one dashboard, in English and Urdu.
Sales: a POS screen where staff scan a barcode, sell to a customer and print a thermal receipt. F1 opens a new sale.
Stock in and out: incoming shipments from mills and factories update stock automatically, and each sale reduces it. Every item has a minimum level. When stock falls below it, the item shows up in a reorder queue, so the owner knows what to order before it runs out.
Products: each item has a barcode, supplier, category, fabric notes, image, cost price and retail price. The system calculates gross margin as you enter prices. Products can be bulk-imported or exported from a spreadsheet template.
The shop’s accounts: customer credit ledgers (khata), supplier dues, a daily cash book (rokad), shop expenses (kharch such as rent, wages and electricity), a daily closing report (hisab), and profit reports (nafa). Labels are in both Urdu and English, so staff use it in the language they already work in.
A bilingual (Urdu/English) inventory and POS system for a garment shop, with barcode sales, stock tracking, low-stock alerts, customer credit ledgers and daily accounts.
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Enhances the customer experience: the buyer gets an email at every step: got it, packed, on its way. The last one links to the guide, so the steps arrive before the box does.
The packing board is mine, behind a sign-in, and addresses are kept where only I can read them.
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The phone layouts are designed, not shrunk. The box, its price and its key stay at the foot of the first screen, and the guide's Back and Next stay under your thumb.
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